Pit Children need not be abused, need not suffer lack or loss. They must merely see themselves as ‘second’. Their acting out is not so much to gain ‘first’ but to destroy the ‘first’.
They stop at nothing.
In the example, Zel, aware of what was happening, divorced Neville and got a restraining order against him and against his sons.
The timing was excellent, for Zel’s sons had not been brainwashed and controlled as Julie, they had not turned against their mother.
As adults, Zel’s sons refused to connect with Paul and John. Zel was able to remove her children fast enough and able to counsel them quick enough.
Zel’s son’s realised that Paul and John would lie, would create scenes, would try to manipulate them.
Unlike most people, Zel did not offer excuses and explanations for the behaviour of Paul and John. She put her children first, and that was non-negotiable.
Whatever ‘care’ or ‘therapy’ Paul and John needed they would either get it elsewhere, or not get it at all, but her sons would grow to be normal people.